What game theory can do for NLG: The case of vague language

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 154-161

  Van Deemter, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

FORMAL SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; POSITION PAPERS;

GAME THEORY;

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